Overland Missions

Mission Statement

Every tribe, tongue and nation

Mission Statement: Committed to every tribe, tongue, and nation in the uttermost parts of the earth to bring the gospel, humanitarian care and economic opportunities, to save and
empower lives.

Overland Missions is a missions organization committed to bringing the gospel to the uttermost parts of the earth. Through strategic planning using satellite imagery Overland Missions defines unreached sectors of the earth and moves systematically through the sectors so that every person would hear the gospel. The motto of Overland Missions is, "Any Road...Any Load...Any Time." This describes the commitment that Overland Missions makes to the indigenous people of the third world.

Fundamentally, Overland Missions preaches the gospel but also has a compulsion to supply the needs of the people both socially and physically. Prototypes of social and physical systems are implemented to sustain them until the gospel has its full effect. Overland Missions reaches people not only with the modern day technology of satellite imagery but also the through the use of expedition style vehicles that can travel to the remote, inaccessible locations where people live.

Overland Missions is better known for its 4x4 trucks, its expedition boats and its young missionaries that are willing to risk all for the sake of the gospel.

We take God at His word and believe by faith to see the book of Acts continued in the earth today. We claim every nation, every island, every tribe, and every soul within our jurisdiction to reach, teach and empower with the Gospel.

Philosophy
Support the work that is already there

Indigenous Philosophy: Overland Missions believes in the value of the indigenous church and community. We endeavor
to never undermine or appear to be replacing the local church or community. Rather, we want to come into agreement with what God is doing in a region and with the people that He has already placed there. Therefore, we instruct team members to build quality long-term relationships with local leaders of the church and community.

This stands at the core of the organization. Overland was birthed in the third world, giving us unique insight to support this strategic approach.

Urban Philosophy: Overland Missions believes in God’s order of empowering the local church as His form of stewardship in the nations. Therefore, Overland seeks to network with first world churches through relationships. Working together, the goal of these relationships is to edify the third world church and to support the vision of each church for their own nation.

Long-Term Missions (Sector Managem

ent)
Find Them, Manage Them, Empower Them

Missions has taken a dramatic turn, never before have we been able to see so clearly. In the past, we did recon on the ground and hoped to end up in the right spot somewhere on the earth. Now the power of technology allows us to find an exact location. Using a bird’s eye view provided by satellite imagery we can clearly see tribes and villages and wisely plan our approach.

Welcome to the age of sector management. We divided sections of the world into 10,000 sq. mile sectors and made a focused strategy that uses each one of Overland Missions departments to recon, plan and execute the task at hand. Each sector is managed by a missionary couple that make a five-year commitment to the area.

Now that we can see them, we are responsible to reach them. We use every off-road truck, GPS system and method of technology we can get our hands on to finish the job: to get to the isolated and neglected people and help them gain what has been lacking for years. This means that the basics of food, safe drinking water, education and health needs are met.

Short-Term Missions

A short time in the field, part of long-term team

Overland Missions believes that “to whom much is given, much is required” Luke 12:48. Therefore, we fully accept the responsibility to share the wealth of information that God has entrusted to us. We are grateful for the work of missionaries who have gone before us and we seek to build on what they have already accomplished through Christ. We believe short-term mission expeditions to be one of the most vital tools of the 21st century church to reach the isolated and neglected.

Note: Overland’s short-term expedition approach to missions does not indicate a lack of follow-up once we make contact. Extensive reconnaissance is done prior to an expedition and long-term relationship building is done after an expedition to ensure the longevity of our influence.

The most important resource we have is people. People that choose to take a small portion of their lives and spend it to affect the life of someone else. We use the talents and skills of each individual to reach the unreached and to care for the neglected. Each short-term mission contributes to the long-term vision for each sector. This is done by: short-term mission expeditions, sector volunteers, LIFE Project volunteers, interns, AMT students and recon team members.
Check out where short-term team members are needed today!

Statement of Faith

The drive behind it all

What Overland Missions believes causes us to travel to the hard to reach places and environments, lose sleep, work diligently and view every person the way God does and not from man's viewpoint.

Click below to see our statement of faith

Statement of Faith(PDF)

Expeditions
The Mission

We deem a young man or woman more useful to the kingdom of God in villages than waiting in line to preach from first world pulpits. So we do just that, take young adults on expeditions to the isolated and neglected villages of the world. We use any type of travel it takes to reach these areas. From airplanes, to boats, expedition trucks to local buses and when the time calls for it, our own feet. As the young missonaries feet begin to get dirty in the villages they go forward and form relationships, evangelizing and strengthening the local church. Through the years, thousands of missionaries have been sent, returning with stories, stories that are straight out of the book of Acts, with all the miracles and acts of power included.

The Life Project
The Care

70% of people affected with HIV/AIDS live in sub-Saharan Africa.
This statistic means that within a group of 10 people in sub-Saharan Africa, 7 people have HIV/AIDS. The LIFE Project serves as a way that we make a difference in the massive problem of HIV/AIDS. LIFE embraces the methods of the tribal forefathers to provide care within the village structure. In each village the community joins forces: schoolteachers working with social workers to make sure that those that are vulnerable no longer have to live without hope. Also, a strategic system is put in place in each village that ensures that orphans, widows and vulnerable people get the care that they need. We use a holistic approach as a way to provide change, from medical assistance, to HIV/AIDS education, to providing food.

Click here for more information about the LIFE Project.

The SAM Project
The Provision

Everyone knows the old saying “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Africa has been given too many fishes. The SAM Project creates a micro enterprises with garden projects, beekeeping and also plants tree seedlings so that the things villages need the most, they can make themselves. Then the surplus good are sold and bring in a small income for the village. SAM helps find the local solutions that bring stability to villagers lives.

Click here for more information on the SAM Project

Rural Pastors Network
The Discipleship

The Rural Pastors Network was initiated to assist in the education of rural pastors as Overland ministers to them in the field. The rural pastors receive a two-year training program in their churches one night a week. There are over 1200 pastors in the network right now.

Advanced Mission Training
The Training

Get trained to reach remote locations, communicate the gospel and come back alive. That is what Advanced Mission Training
(AMT) does during its three month training course. It is held at a remote location at the Overland Missions Rapid 14 base in Zambia, Africa. Don’t think of lecture halls and PowerPoint when you think of the AMT course. It is the practical hands-on missionary training that fully equips young adults for the field. From welding and diesel mechanics, to wilderness first aid and GPS navigation, more is taught in three months than typically could be learned in years. The best part about? It is surrounded by the wild, natural beauty of Africa. Remote villages and ministry opportunities are just a few short miles away.

Click here for more information about Advanced Mission Training.